Ketosis refers to the biochemical process your body goes through when it starts burning fat for energy.
Normally, your body burns sugar in your bloodstream as well as the sugar stored in your liver and muscles. Worst comes to worst, your body would turn protein into sugar courtesy of your liver.
When you burn fat for energy, your pancreas does not release insulin since there is no sugar involved.
This means that you feel fuller longer. You're no longer eating throughout the day like you would if you were on a standard carbohydrate rich diet.
The reason why a lot of people gain weight is because they can't stop eating throughout the day. This is
due to the fact that their insulin peaks and crashes several times during the day. These peaks and crashes trigger your brain to feel hungry. Your body starts sending out hunger signals and you can't help but eat.
Obviously, the more calories you eat and the less calories you burn or if you burn calories at the same rate as you normally do, you end up storing those excess calories into fat. You let go of all of that when you switch over to fact. Your body burns fat instead of sugar, so you feel fuller for a longer period of time.
No, you’re not going to die with ketosis!
One of the most common misconceptions about going on a keto diet is that you end up polluting your blood with ketone bodies to the point that you die. This is a myth. Usually, the people who develop this condition called ketoacidosis are people who cannot naturally produce insulin.
In other words, people most prone to keotacidosis are type 1 diabetics. There's a good chance you're not a type 1 diabetic. Most people aren't. This is why you shouldn't worry about developing ketoacidosis because at some level, your body is still producing insulin. It really can't go completely off insulin.
If you want your keto diet to be a success, you need to wrap your mind around what I'm about to share with you. If you neglect this chapter, chances are you are not going to stay on the keto diet for long.
There's a high likelihood that you're probably going to look at your keto diet as just another thing that you've tried so you can lose weight.
In other words, it's just another diet to you. Last time I checked, that is a losing strategy. Keep an open mind and focus on the following.
Change your lifestyle instead of going on another diet Don't look at the keto diet as just another diet option. I know that I used the term “keto diet”, but if you look at it closely, it's actually something bigger than a simple decision to switch from one class of foods to another.
It's actually a lifestyle change. You're going to change your taste buds. Previously, you may not have much of a preference for oily foods. But once you make that switch, it becomes harder to switch back.
Your perspective has changed.
